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Commissioners authorize title searches after attorney general opinion, debate county role in exhumations
Summary
After a lengthy public discussion and outside counsel review of an Attorney General opinion, the Dimmit County commissioners authorized title examinations for local cemeteries and tabled immediate action on exhumations pending the results.
Dimmit County commissioners on Feb. 24 authorized outside counsel to conduct title examinations for four local cemeteries and delayed any direct county involvement in exhumations until ownership and statutory limits are clear.
The action came after an extended discussion prompted by Operation ID and Texas State anthropologists requesting county help in exhuming graves at Guadalupe (Pantheon) Cemetery and others. County outside counsel Keith Franklin reviewed an Attorney General opinion saying counties generally may not assist in exhumations of private cemeteries, then pointed to Health and Safety Code provisions that allow county assistance for cemeteries older than 50 years for historical-preservation or public-health…
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